Do you have a burning research question and you’re not sure where to start? Are your funders asking for documented research and you don’t know where to turn? Do you need to conduct focus groups but don’t know where to begin? Community Works can design an inclusive, participatory action process that gets accurate answers to your questions and/or we can design and conduct focus groups with your stakeholder groups, that will keep the participants asking for more (yes it is possible to make the dreaded focus group fun).

Making Focus Groups Fun: Focus groups…

We’ve all heard the term – it’s often mysterious and unattainable, something left to the pros. Far from it. Community Works can help you design, conduct and analyze the results from focus groups – getting information that is targeted to your needs. Improve your program, develop a new program, test an idea… the sky is the limit for the uses of focus groups. Community Works conducts focus groups that balance engagement and fun on the part of the participants with getting methodologically sound information.

Length: dependent upon depth and breadth of information that needs to be gathered. Contact us directly for a quote.

Direct benefits:

* Confidence that the information you gather from your focus groups is accurate and sound
* Ability to take the gathered information and apply it in a myriad of ways, from improving programs to creating new ones
* Increased profile in the community from participants it the focus groups becoming more aware of what it is you’re doing
* Potential to increase your funding, as funders love to see that information is gleaned from a wide variety of methodically sound sources

You Should Hear What They’re Saying! Check it, choose it, fill it in

We’ve all had to do them. Surveys. The information gained from them can be invaluable but most people don’t like to fill them out. Enter Community Works. We make a connection between surveys and chocolate for example (yes, it’s true). We create methodologically sound surveys, in which you can be confident in the data, with creativity and panache. No matter what topic you want to survey people on we can help.

Length: dependent upon depth and breadth of information that needs to be gathered. Contact us directly for a quote.

Direct benefits:

* Confidence that the information you gather from your survey(s) is accurate and sound
* Ability to take the gathered information and apply it in a myriad of ways, from improving programs to creating new ones
* Increased profile in the community from participants it the surveys becoming more aware of what it is you’re doing
* Potential to increase your funding, as funders love to see that information is gleaned from a wide variety of methodically sound sources

Social Responsibility & Self-employment

We’ve all heard the buzzwords: ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR). CSR most often refers to the means by which large companies measure their environmental performance and social impact, as well as their implementation practices in improving social and environmental performance. But many of these practices are not feasible for small enterprises. Intrigued by the gap in research on small business and CSR, Community Works has been engaged in a research partnership with VanCity Savings Credit Union and the University of Alberta, to examine what social responsibility looks like for micro-enterprises. If you are interested in finding out more or getting involved please contact us. We’d be delighted to include you in our work.

Direct benefits:

* Learn how to incorporate social responsibility into micro-enterprise
* Ability to define social responsibly for yourself and implement strategies that make sense to you
* Meet intriguing people that are doing the same

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